Diagnosis (dushanensis): Numbers of scansor pairs on dilated portions of digits II-V usually 3-4-4-4 in hand, 4-5-5-5 in foot*2, fifth pairs on digits III-V of foot relatively large compared to H. y. jinpingensis, extending to outer margin of digits in most specimens (Fig. 6); diameter of ear opening 0.3-0.6 mm, about 13-25% of eye diameter; dorsal surface without pattern, or with only a few irregular dark markings (from Zhou et al in Ota 1996).

Comment

Synonymy: after ZUG 2010 synonymized longlingensis, jinpingensis, and dushanensis with yunnanensis but GRISMER et al. 2013 elevated longlingensis (5 specimens), jinpingensis (4 specimens), and dushanensis (2 specimens) to full species status based on DNA sequence data but without any morphological diagnoses. Sung et al. 2018: 369 (Table 5) provide a character table for these 4 species but the characters are largely overlapping.

Distribution: see Figure 2 in GRISMER et al. 2013 for a map of this and other Hemiphyllodactylus species.

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